heliopolis

is system bosnia a thought

couldn’t you tell?

(Underrated) Ancients to Today

I mean this technically qualifies as a Day 1 and Day 2 for @historical-hetalia-week​? Anyways nevermind the fact that I’m late for both

EDIT: FINALLY FIXED IT HEY STAFF MAYBE WORK ON UNFUCKING UP THE MOBILE TEXT EDITOR BEFORE YOU FUCK UP THE PC EDITOR TOO

Achaemenid Persia/Iran

“Where others have developed as people Iran has developed longer limbs“ - @hammyletto

Just as insufferable as they were 2000 years ago

Hellas/Ancient Greece

Drawing her hair broke my wrist

Greece

If you couldn’t tell I don’t know how to draw cats

Why do hard to hair draw hairstyles run in this family

Khemet/Ancient Egypt

Supes Old and keeps getting steamrolled over by whatever foreigner shows up

Egypt

Strongest Bitch Face Syndrome known to man

“That damn dam!“

Kush (OC)

“Imagine getting annexed by the Romans like a fucking loser” -this post was made by the Kushite gang

Like the above note suggests, she never got conquered by Rome like Khemet. Or by the Persians. Or the Macedonians. Or the Arabs. Actually she legit conquered Khemet that one time-

Sudan (OC)

Unlike Greece and Egypt, Sudan’s ancient predecessor, Kush, is not his mother, nor did he ever know her directly. Kush is his grandmother!

Very very smug

And below is a closeup of Aksum+Ethiopia and their deets! They didn’t cut into a nice square crop sdhfjksjkdfjks

Well putting aside the thorny question “When does a nation come into existence?” aside, let’s start with the fact that generations are defined mostly by shared experiences, typically unique to a certain time period, but also to a region and a place. For example, someone born in the US in the 1950s versus someone born in Papua New Guinea in the 1950s have drastically different experiences despite being “chronologically” the same generation.

As a result, nation generations are also unique to regions and times, particularly, big events that defined the geopolitics for centuries to come. It’s also likely that the vast majority of nations don’t fit neatly into a “generation” system, yknow? There are nations that may be chronologically old, but only matured much later, making their experiences markedly different. There are also nations who just weren’t affected as much by the big, generation defining event in question! 

Since defining all these generations requires a deeply intimate knowledge of a region’s history and internal dynamics, I’m prbly not gonna know or write abt them all lol- but here’s a few of the most distinct generations I think exist among nations, and a non exhaustive list of their members!

Old as Balls (~2000 BCE and before): China, India, Vietnam, Ancient Egypt/Khemet

Bronze Age Collapse (1200-1000 BCE): Iran, Syria, Yemen, and maybe Ethiopia? (The latter two were much less affected by the Bronze Age Collapse)

Rome Explodes (400s-800s): England, Spain, Egypt

The First Summit of The Non-Aligned Movement; Belgrade, 1961

I stole @peonycats ‘s Somalia, Mali, and Sudan for this 😈

Reference:

Perhaps the greatest betrayal of my fatherland is drawing Mister Egypt on China's birthday instead

Footnotes:

background comic translation is from @hetascanlations!

drew miss Colombia for this amazing art restoration-

The First Summit of The Non-Aligned Movement; Belgrade, 1961

I stole @peonycats ‘s Somalia, Mali, and Sudan for this 😈

Reference:

The long promised Levant Lads post! WOWZA!!

The comic about whether or not Leb really being the most beautiful was colored by the lovely @ask-al-jazair​!!! THANK U SO MUCH AGAIN IT TURNED OUT POSITIVELY GORGEOUS…

(shoutout to @pearlescentplums​ who let me use her palestine art in israel’s phone HSDHJ)

Here are some miscellaneous doodles and memes i’ve accrued while working on this for months lmao- tumblr destroyed the quality so pls open this in a new tab lmao

BONUS:

The Eastern Mediterranean Discord Server (ft. Bahrain)

Despite his cool appearances, he's usually a chatty and helpful person and always got that gossip on dial 👁️👁️👂

Man just literally cannot emote for the life of him...

Likes sweets!

Competing for "The Most Artistique Of The Near East" with Lebanon... They're both quite good at singing!

Also competing to be the "Most Athletic of the Near East"- he's very proud 😤

Some may call them the worst two of the middle east (depends on your definition of "worst")

Locked in a perpetual battle over who's the better singer/has better films/plays soccer better/cooks better/etc...

Lebanon loves talking mad shit about Egypt's soccer/football team, but to be fair, he loves talking shit abt pretty much everyone

Egypt thinks Lebanon's accent sounds a bit weird, Lebanon thinks Egypt's accent is hilarious